Nothing beats the heat quite like ice cream! It’s cold, delicious, and most importantly, very portable in an ice cream cone. But where did the ice cream cone come from? Agnes Bertha Marshall, the “queen of ices”, published the first known recipe for a wafer cone in her cookbook Mrs. A.B. Marshall’s Cookery Book (a very creative name). But ironically enough, they weren’t even originally for ice cream; while she did suggest using ice cream or sorbet, they were originally filled with whipped cream! Read full article here
Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
